[Discussion] SEMINAR SERIES- Oxford Society for the Caspian & Central Asia, Oxford, UK

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

SEMINAR SERIES- Oxford Society for the Caspian & Central Asia,
Oxford, UK



The Oxford Society for the Caspian and Central Asia (TOSCCA)

New Seminar Series on "Trust and Deceit in Central Asia, past and present".

Hilary Term, Oxford.

Tuesdays at 4 pm in the Hovenden Room, All Souls (except where announced
differently).

18 January.
Dr Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS. "Broken promises? Woman and State in
Uzbekistan and Afghanistan".

25 January.
Zuhra Halimova, Director, Open Society Institute, Dushanbe. "Building
and Losing Trust in Modern Tajik Politics".

4 February
(NB. Friday in the Wharton Room, All Souls). Prof Adeeb
Khaled, Carleton College, Minnesota. "Between Reform and Revolution:
Islam in Early-Soviet Central Asia".

15 February.
Dr Edmund Waite, Institute of Education, Cambridge.  Xinjiang: "Islam
amongst the Uyghurs of Kashgar: the impact of socialist rule on popular
religious practices".

22 February.
Dr Yury Karev, Centre for Comparative Studies of Ancient Civilisations,
Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.  "Arabs
and Soghdians in 8th century Samarkand: between diplomatic fiction and
political reality".

1 March.
Dr Evrahim Binbash, University of Chicago. (Title to be announced)

10 March.
(NB Thursday in Seminar Room 1, All Souls). Professor Neil MacFarlane
(St Anne's College, Oxford) and Dr Edmund Herzig (Manchester
University). (Title to be announced.)



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